Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 60 64
Rank change year-on-year -57 +4 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,550 1,838 3,634
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.67% 4.32% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 4.64% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,095 962 2,718
10th Percentile £48,289 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,715 39,643 83,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.91% 93.27% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 44,731 20,766 60,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -53 1,412 £75,000 - 548
UK excluding London -103 715 £67,500 -3.57% 354
London +4 709 £85,000 - 247
Work from Home -31 669 £69,310 -0.99% 296
North of England -52 320 £69,310 -4.07% 122
South East -55 174 £67,500 - 96
North West -63 160 £75,000 +5.26% 88
Yorkshire -22 99 £69,310 -7.43% 25
Midlands -82 78 £67,500 +1.89% 43
South West -93 63 £52,500 -23.39% 40
North East +8 61 £65,000 -9.72% 10
West Midlands -62 55 £77,500 +10.71% 22
East of England -36 39 £60,100 -3.84% 16
Scotland -72 30 £62,500 -18.73% 19
East Midlands -76 22 £65,000 - 21
Wales -43 10 £53,171 +2.25% 10
Northern Ireland -32 8 £62,500 +25.00% 9
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.74%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.10%) Confluence
3 14 (0.90%) IIS
3 14 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 13 (0.84%) Apache
5 12 (0.77%) CMS
5 12 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (0.71%) JBoss
7 8 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.39%) WordPress
9 5 (0.32%) Camunda
9 5 (0.32%) Drupal
9 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.19%) Liferay
12 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.065%) CICS
13 1 (0.065%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.39%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.065%) Actimize
4 1 (0.065%) Endur
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 830 (53.55%) AWS
2 641 (41.35%) Azure
3 310 (20.00%) GCP
4 247 (15.94%) Serverless
5 155 (10.00%) SaaS
6 138 (8.90%) GitHub
7 133 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
8 116 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (6.71%) Amazon S3
10 92 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
11 85 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
13 69 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
14 64 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
15 58 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
16 49 (3.16%) Azure AKS
17 48 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 47 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
19 45 (2.90%) Datadog
20 42 (2.71%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.87%) Broadband
2 22 (1.42%) Network Security
3 11 (0.71%) DNS
3 11 (0.71%) MQTT
4 9 (0.58%) HTTP
5 8 (0.52%) VPN
6 7 (0.45%) DHCP
6 7 (0.45%) DMARC
6 7 (0.45%) Firewall
7 6 (0.39%) AMQP
7 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.39%) Internet
7 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.32%) LTE
9 4 (0.26%) RFID
10 3 (0.19%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
10 3 (0.19%) Modbus
10 3 (0.19%) SNMP
10 3 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (13.03%) NoSQL
2 194 (12.52%) MongoDB
3 185 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (5.87%) MySQL
5 81 (5.23%) SQL Server
6 79 (5.10%) Relational Database
7 73 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (3.74%) DynamoDB
9 54 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
11 39 (2.52%) Redis
12 31 (2.00%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.94%) Big Data
14 24 (1.55%) RDBMS
15 11 (0.71%) Pinecone
16 10 (0.65%) DB2
16 10 (0.65%) Power BI
17 7 (0.45%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
18 6 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 197 (12.71%) Git
2 143 (9.23%) GitLab
3 132 (8.52%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.74%) TeamCity
5 45 (2.90%) JUnit
6 43 (2.77%) JIRA
7 37 (2.39%) Cucumber
8 31 (2.00%) CircleCI
8 31 (2.00%) Mockito
9 29 (1.87%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.87%) Maven
10 26 (1.68%) Claude Code
11 17 (1.10%) SonarQube
12 16 (1.03%) Selenium
13 15 (0.97%) JMeter
13 15 (0.97%) Vite
14 14 (0.90%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.52%) Postman
15 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 435 (28.06%) Finance
2 303 (19.55%) Social Skills
3 162 (10.45%) Banking
4 133 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.00%) Law
6 92 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (5.55%) Retail
8 75 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (3.55%) Financial Institution
10 46 (2.97%) Back Office
11 34 (2.19%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.35%) Marketing
14 19 (1.23%) Advertising
15 18 (1.16%) Billing
16 16 (1.03%) Legal
17 14 (0.90%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.71%) Front Office
19 10 (0.65%) Games
19 10 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 529 (34.13%) Developer
2 400 (25.81%) Senior
3 321 (20.71%) Software Engineer
4 224 (14.45%) Architect
5 214 (13.81%) Lead
6 138 (8.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 136 (8.77%) Java Developer
8 119 (7.68%) Senior Developer
9 112 (7.23%) Java Engineer
10 108 (6.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 104 (6.71%) .NET Developer
12 86 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 60 (3.87%) Software Developer
15 59 (3.81%) Principal Engineer
16 57 (3.68%) Lead Developer
17 54 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.10%) Senior Java Engineer
19 46 (2.97%) Java Software Engineer
20 44 (2.84%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (21.68%) .NET
1 336 (21.68%) React
2 278 (17.94%) Node.js
2 278 (17.94%) RESTful
3 267 (17.23%) Spring
4 238 (15.35%) Spring Boot
5 217 (14.00%) REST
6 202 (13.03%) Kafka
7 132 (8.52%) AngularJS
8 114 (7.35%) .NET Core
9 108 (6.97%) ASP.NET
10 103 (6.65%) Vue
11 86 (5.55%) gRPC
12 84 (5.42%) HTML
13 83 (5.35%) ASP.NET Core
14 75 (4.84%) CSS
15 65 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
16 64 (4.13%) .NET Framework
17 58 (3.74%) OAuth
18 53 (3.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 444 (28.65%) Cloud Native
2 267 (17.23%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
5 66 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
6 51 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.97%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.90%) Over-the-Top Content
9 36 (2.32%) Algorithms
10 35 (2.26%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.74%) Public Cloud
11 27 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
13 24 (1.55%) Onboarding
14 22 (1.42%) Blockchain
14 22 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 21 (1.35%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
16 20 (1.29%) PKI
17 18 (1.16%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 94 (6.06%) Linux
2 40 (2.58%) Windows
3 20 (1.29%) Unix
4 8 (0.52%) Android
5 7 (0.45%) CentOS
5 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.32%) Debian
6 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.065%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (50.58%) CI/CD
2 641 (41.35%) Agile
3 573 (36.97%) DevOps
4 571 (36.84%) Software Engineering
5 394 (25.42%) Containerisation
6 385 (24.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 363 (23.42%) Mentoring
8 324 (20.90%) Test Automation
9 304 (19.61%) Event-Driven
10 297 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 289 (18.65%) AI
12 283 (18.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 280 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
14 201 (12.97%) Scrum
15 188 (12.13%) Technical Leadership
16 187 (12.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 186 (12.00%) Coaching
18 179 (11.55%) TDD
19 177 (11.42%) Clean Code
20 164 (10.58%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 527 (34.00%) Java
2 402 (25.94%) Python
3 346 (22.32%) SQL
4 340 (21.94%) JavaScript
5 310 (20.00%) C#
6 248 (16.00%) TypeScript
7 130 (8.39%) Go
8 51 (3.29%) Scala
9 47 (3.03%) PHP
10 46 (2.97%) C++
11 44 (2.84%) Bash
12 30 (1.94%) C
13 28 (1.81%) Ruby
14 25 (1.61%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.48%) Rust
16 22 (1.42%) PowerShell
17 19 (1.23%) Kotlin
18 18 (1.16%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.84%) Groovy
20 12 (0.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 183 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 170 (10.97%) Degree
3 120 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 91 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.74%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.68%) CISSP
9 22 (1.42%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (0.71%) CISM
13 8 (0.52%) PhD
14 6 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.32%) GIAC
15 5 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.77%) QA
2 42 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 33 (2.13%) GDPR
3 33 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.48%) NIST
6 21 (1.35%) SOC 2
7 14 (0.90%) GRC
8 11 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.65%) NCSC
9 10 (0.65%) WCAG
10 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.13%) SEPA
15 1 (0.065%) Data Quality
15 1 (0.065%) SLA
System Software
1 458 (29.55%) Docker
2 16 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 493 (31.81%) Kubernetes
2 298 (19.23%) Terraform
3 87 (5.61%) Ansible
3 87 (5.61%) Grafana
4 48 (3.10%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.61%) Argo
6 23 (1.48%) Kibana
7 17 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.84%) Puppet
9 12 (0.77%) Cilium
10 8 (0.52%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.26%) Packer
11 4 (0.26%) Podman
11 4 (0.26%) Rancher
12 3 (0.19%) Istio
12 3 (0.19%) Nagios
13 2 (0.13%) MIIS
13 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 171 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.26%) Google
3 53 (3.42%) Oracle
4 45 (2.90%) Typelevel
5 24 (1.55%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.35%) Dynatrace
7 20 (1.29%) Splunk
8 16 (1.03%) AppDynamics
9 14 (0.90%) IBM
10 13 (0.84%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.65%) Adobe
13 9 (0.58%) Cisco
13 9 (0.58%) Guidewire
13 9 (0.58%) SendGrid
14 8 (0.52%) Salesforce
15 7 (0.45%) HubSpot
15 7 (0.45%) SAP
15 7 (0.45%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.39%) Palo Alto